I can believe it is Safari. It is being embedded in everything now and it feels like the full damn thing. If I send a link in iMessage, it loads it up. Most of the time, my girlfriend and I are sending each other animated animal gifs, and it kills battery life on just about ANYTHING (Mac, phone, otherwise). Ironically, the one day that I decided to put on Do Not Disturb and didn’t have iMessage up? I got the best battery life ever.
That said, for the last decade, I have never gone ANYWHERE without a second or third power cable. I always have one at my desk, usually another sitting by my couch at home, and another in my bag. I have done that with almost all my laptops, windows and otherwise (I found a dell powersupply while pulling out my couch for cleaning a few weeks ago…I haven’t had a dell in 3 years!)
D’ok. If having to carry a dongle that is easy to put in the very cable it is using, taking up almost no weight or size is the breaking point…you are right. As a musician (former musician?) I’m very use to carrying around a dozen cables with me. And adapters. Hmmm…where is my XLR to Quarter Inch? These savages don’t understand balanced outputs. Which midi cable do I need to connect this device? Is it going to be USB to MIDI? Am I going to have to hook up a firewire cable to my for mLan (ok, nobody does this any more). Which SCSI cable do I need for this device? Is it going to be the 25 DB connector, the SCA, or the thin pluggy one. I carry less adaptors these days than I have anytime in the past.
As a musician, I was HAPPIER when someone used a newer standard even if it bothered be for a short time. They would be a better standard and if I needed a dongle to downgrade the output for a short time, so be it. I hate being saddled with a shitty port that is there simply for the interim until others figure it out. Give me the power upfront and let me deal with it.
As for the keyboard…I’m typing on my 15" right now. It will take some getting use to.
I don’t know…my biggest complaint about Apple happens to be that they are going all or nothing with portables and not desktops. Pro desktops. I’m happy with my Hackintosh that I use for heavy lifting (my portables can all do what I do here, but I don’t have to plug / unplug a studio to get to them). I’ve heard others saying their biggest fear on the Hackintosh side (maybe it was in a comment above…too lazy to check now!) – biggest fear is with Apple ignoring the desktop and not having a diversity of products, it will be harder and harder to get drivers for Hackintoshes. I know I had to buy a very specific set of parts to get mine to run…but it is still benchmarks faster than anything shipping several years after building it. The fact that I can get 100+ tracks of audio including virtual instruments running smoothly through it without breaking a sweat or having to bounce down? I’m happy. Fact is, even on the pro stuff I use to work on, I rarely ever touched this many tracks unless someone have no clue about the recording process and thought bigger was better.
